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The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has launched its search for contractors to tender for £2.9bn worth of new facilities management (FM) contracts.
The Future Defence Infrastructure Services (FDIS) will provide FM services across the UK defence estate, replacing existing arrangements when they come to an end.
The contracts are being procured as part of the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Workplace Services Facilities Management Marketplace framework.
This phase of the FDIS programme will procure new hard FM arrangements for four Regional Prime contracts and five contracts that will replace the current National Housing Prime, currently held by Amey which took over from the CarillionAmey JV following the collapse of Carillion.
The contracts have a collective value of £2.9 billion, excluding additional works. A later stage of the process will procure a National Training Management contract to replace the current National Training Estate Prime.
DIO’s commercial director Jacqui Rock said: “DIO is not only one of the largest providers of housing in the UK, with a stock of nearly 50,000 homes, it is also responsible for managing land and buildings across hundreds of diverse MOD sites.
“We are pleased to be working with CCS to procure these contracts. We want to make DIO easier to do business with and adopting this route to market is one of the ways that we hope to achieve this, while enabling us access to a wider, more diverse and increasingly resilient supply base.”
